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[ONC Shortlister - 4x Featured] Professional thief and smuggler, Nio Barn, lives by one rule: break them all.When his criminal past finally catches up to him, he's faced with a choice: win the world's most dangerous racing competition in exchange for freedom or face a lifetime in an overcrowded prison cell. As he enters a world of high-speed thrills, deception and betrayal, Nio realises that life in the Speed Sprint races is far from easy. Forced into a fake relationship with his teammate to keep the money flowing, Nio instead feels more drawn to his fiercest competitor, Ruben Vincuña. With ten races across ten different countries, the stakes are high and the tension is palpable. Only one can be crowned champion. Only one can be free. Death is but a corner away.Written for the Open Novella Contest 2023, based on the prompts:69 - I had a marvellous time ruining everything - Taylor Swift49 - Master the rules of the game until you play it better than they can - Michael ScottFour times featured:Romance - Rainbow of LoveDystopian & Apocalypse - Rebellion: Against The SystemSpeculative Fiction - A Crack In The SystemScience Fiction - Punk Fiction…

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[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one during a full moon). The morning after a particularly rough transition, the young teenage girl who normally wastes her days on the skatepark across the street enters his shop, fervently looking for a book on the legend of Brabo and Antigonus. As she struggles to pay, she reveals that the bronze giant has disappeared from the statue on the town square. At the foot of the fountain now lies a body that has been dead for three hundred years.Prompts chosen:(25) The war has ended, and thus the immortals return to their natural state: forgotten, hiding in the shadows until humankind is in need of them once more. They did not expect to be stumbled upon by a young farm apprentice. (*)(60) Rumours of a mysterious dark force under the earth have spread around the city. You are sent to investigate.(*) To fit the plot I have in mind, the young farm apprentice will become a bookstore "apprentice"…

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[High Fantasy/Dark Fantasy] Sebastian is finally old enough to be a warrior. He has dreamt about joining his friends, Alex and Nick, for as long as he can remember. His best friend, Fox, doesn't like it one bit that he still has to wait nine more moons before he can prove himself a real man.But something is stirring in the Forest of Lane. Katla the Fire Magician has been sent south to unleash hell. Torn away from the protection of their parents and each other, Sebastian, Alex, Nick, and Fox become stuck as pawns in a life-threatening game played by kings, generals, and power-hungry magicians.Friendships fall as the only escape is to rise to power themselves...Cover created by the wonderful @Krystal_M…

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[Book 2] Growing up isn't easy, especially not when you're Crown Prince Sebastian, heir to the Greenlander throne. While the God of Wrath reigns at court, the prince only finds empty seats at the dinner table. His once so close friends, Alex and Nick are fighting for their lives on opposite sides of the country, and King Thomas is becoming more secluded and paranoid by the day. When seemingly all hope is lost, Sebastian gets help from an unexpected source.Hundreds of miles more north, Fox is battling the implications of being a royal bastard. The young Fire Magician doesn't know whether to pledge allegiance to his half-brother or to King Ariel. And then a third royal arrives in Silvermark, a Prince from Ice...…

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[Novella]As a child, Sci was scarred by her own mother for being a witch. While the wound has healed and her shawl now covers her face, Sci struggles to remain deaf to the call of the desert wind. She works hard to get into the Scorian army, taking a path riddled with false friends, petty politics, and relentless Rajas. Then, one day, Sci receives an invitation from the palace. A personal message from Queen Rainah.**Cover by Krystal_M**…

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[Book 3]While the whole of Alburkhan is gathering for the union between Prince Sebastian and Princess Jhara, Silvermark is preparing for an entirely different feast: Lord Fox's sixteenth birthday. After years of training, the young redhead is now old enough to usurp The Greenlander throne in the name of all magicians. Two people stand between him and eternal glory. Two people for whom the entire world will go to war. Fox is ready. Seb, Alex, and Nick are not.The children from A Blaze In The Dark and The Midnight Storm are all grown up. A New Dawn Rises over the Five Kingdoms.…

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My short stories and one shots…